But, now that the event is going ahead, there is one topic that I hope to see come up during the event — the environment. It will be fascinating to see how Griffin deals with this topic, given that last April his party published its environmental manifesto with the somewhat bold claim that the BNP is "this nation's only true Green party which has policies that will actually save the environment".

You're forgiven if you didn't catch this particular dispatch, so here's a little recap:

Unlike the fake "Greens" who are merely a front for the far left of the Labour regime, the BNP is the only party to recognise that overpopulation – whose primary driver is immigration, as revealed by the government's own figures – is the cause of the destruction of our environment. Furthermore, the BNP's manifesto states that a BNP government will make it a priority to stop building on green land. New housing should wherever possible be built on derelict "brown land."

Don't you just love the way they describe it as "brown land" rather than the more conventional "brownfield land". Freudian slip, or intentionally offensive phraseology?

• The removal of unsightly overhead power lines from beauty spots and their burial underground.
• The creation of a bulk transport tax regime that pushes supermarkets to supply more local and seasonal produce.
• The encouragement of an extensive and rapid switchover to organic and low fossil fuel farming techniques.
• The banning of the ritual slaughter of animals without pre-stunning, and the sale of such meat.
• The elimination of the unhealthy, energy intensive and cruel factory farming of livestock.
• The abolition of all "stealth taxes" and other charges on household rubbish collections.
• Develop alternative transport fuels such as bio-diesel and hydrogen.
• Develop renewable energy sources such as off-shore wind farms, wave, tidal and solar energy.
• Investigate the feasibility of cutting-edge, intrinsically-safe, fast-breeder nuclear stations.
• Invest in a high-speed, magnetic levitation, inter-city rail network.

On the surface, there are a few sensible and, what are now seen as, rather mainstream green polices in there. (Note the compassion afforded to the wellbeing of farm animals. Pity there isn't any left over to afford to the British citizens who the BNP deem as not being "ethnically white".) But you don't have to dig too far to see what forms much of the BNP's environmental thinking:

Britain is one of the most densely populated countries in the world and our population is increasing — due entirely to immigration — which necessitates the building of ever more homes, which in turn places a strain on our infrastructure such as transport and water supplies.

On the issues of resource depletion and climate change, though, the BNP steers a more intriguing course:

Oil and gas are finite resources, rapidly being depleted. Prices are going to continue to rise significantly and this will place a heavy burden on both industry and private consumers. Furthermore, as we are becoming increasingly dependent on energy from unstable and potentially unfriendly foreign powers we are becoming ever more vulnerable to economic blackmail or even harm. 'Peak Oil' is a clear and imminent danger to our economy and society, so Britain needs to invest in new technologies and be broadly self-sufficient in terms of energy.

Finally, the BNP accepts that climate change, of whatever origin, is a threat to Britain. Current evidence suggests that some of it may be man-made; even if this is not the case, then the principle of 'better safe than sorry' applies and we should try to minimise the emission of greenhouse gases and other pollutants.

Notice the careful dance around whether climate change can be pinned on the actions of mankind or not. It's a long way from the words of Nick Griffin back in June when he told Radio 5 Live's Nicky Campbell that "global warming is a hoax...being exploited by the liberal elite as a means of taxing and controlling us and the real crisis is peak oil".

The growing majority of ordinary people view climate change as an elite scam, an excuse to tax and control us and impose internationalist dogma and global government at the expense of the nation state.

At least Griffin is being consistent with his views on peak oil. But pick apart the loaded use of the terms "unfriendly foreign powers" and "self sufficient" and you soon get the impression that the BNP's concern about peak oil is fuelled by little more than their desire to create Drawbridge Britain.

If I was in that Question Time audience today and had the chance to put a question to the panel, I might be tempted to form a question around the subject of the environment. For example, who's to blame for our environmental crisis: "us" or "them"?